🇬🇧 Getting a cat used to life indoors

I just read a tweet asking what to do with a cat who lives partially outdoors to get used to a new life completely indoors. I have an experience with this and I’ll share it.

My Iduna was adopted when she was 8. She was living in a small house where she only entered to eat and sleep. She was free to go outdoors. I live in an apartment with nylon webs in all windows and the balcony to protect my cats. How do you call these protective webs in your country guys? I’m brazilian and I didn’t discover the name for these webs in english nor in italian. You can see the nylon web and Iduna on my Instagram.

Well, Iduna arrived in this new environment where she couldn’t go out for fun. And she spent a few days meowing in the balcony at night, very sad. But I gave her a lot of love and helped her to feel comfortable although she didn’t appreciate the two cats and a dog I had that time. In a few days she didn’t meow in the balcony anymore. Some time later she started to sleep in my lap while I was meditating. This was her favourite place. When she was in my lap any of her brothers could get close to us and she was extremely calm.

Although Iduna never became really friendly to her brothers I believe to have two cats or more is better as they’ll have another companion to have fun, not depending on the human staff to entertain them. As a plus, you can help to diminish the number of abandoned cats keeping them indoors and having as much as you can deal with and afford.

Cats have strong personalities but they adapt easily to a new life when they feel loved and cherished.

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Nycka, the Nomad